It's been a troubling couple of weeks for Mandriva, but I decided not to report on it since I found it hard to unravel the events leading up to all this. Now, though, the story has come to its (logical) conclusion: now that most of Mandriva's employees have been laid off, they came together and forked Mandriva. Enter Mageia.

[q]so your argument is that since the business plan was impossible, the pursuit of the impossible shows competence in the management? /q]
no, I've never said that. I said that failing was not a sign of incompetence, therefore bashing them for that is just pointless.